PhD students working on any topic within Latin American literary, visual or cultural studies will automatically become a member of the Latin American Cultural Studies Consortium when they start their doctoral research at Cambridge, regardless of whether they made their original application via the Department of Spanish and Portuguese or the Centre of Latin American Studies.

As members of the Consortium, students will have access on an equal basis to the training and development opportunities offered by both the Department and the Centre, including opportunities for teaching experience, working space, library rights, and other events of an academic or social nature. Students will also be able to apply to funds available for travel and other expenses administered by the Centre of Latin American Studies (the Simón Bolívar Fund) and by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

PhD students who are admitted either to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese or to the Centre of Latin American Studies and who are working on a subject within Latin American literary, visual or cultural studies will automatically become members of the cross-departmental Consortium in Latin American Cultural Studies.

Applicants are free to apply in the first instance to whichever department they wish. Once a suitable supervisor has been identified, applications will normally be transferred for processing by the department in which the supervisor is based. If students take up an offer of a place, they will formally be registered in their principal supervisor’s department but will in practice be members of both the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Centre of Latin American Studies under the special Consortium arrangement, with full access to the training, development and funding opportunities offered by both the Department and the Centre.

Find out more on the Department of Spanish and Portuguese's Postgraduate pages